PT-2026-50743 · Go · Github.Com/Open-Telemetry/Opentelemetry-Collector-Contrib/Receiver/Githubreceiver

Publicado

2026-06-18

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Atualizado

2026-06-18

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CVE-2026-55701

CVSS v4.0

6.9

Média

VetorAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

githubreceiver Silently Ignores Configured required headers Authentication

Summary

The githubreceiver webhook handler does not enforce the required headers configuration. Headers are validated at startup (config rejects empty keys/values) but never checked on incoming requests. This follows the same pattern as GHSA-prf6-xjxh-p698 (awsfirehosereceiver auth bypass). Verified against current main.

Details

In receiver/githubreceiver/config.go, the RequiredHeaders field is defined (line 45) and validated at startup (lines 93-101). But receiver/githubreceiver/trace receiver.go in handleReq() (lines 131-185) never references RequiredHeaders.
The gitlabreceiver enforces the same config correctly at receiver/gitlabreceiver/traces receiver.go:266-270:
for key, value := range gtr.cfg.WebHook.RequiredHeaders { if r.Header.Get(key) != string(value) { return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errInvalidHeader, key) } }

Amplifying factor

The Secret field defaults to empty and has no validation requiring it to be set. With an empty secret, github.ValidatePayload skips HMAC validation entirely. An operator who configures required headers as their authentication mechanism (without setting secret) has zero authentication on the webhook endpoint.

Impact

An attacker can send arbitrary webhook payloads to the githubreceiver endpoint, bypassing the operator configured authentication. This allows injecting fake CI/CD trace data into the observability pipeline.

Suggested Fix

Add RequiredHeaders enforcement to handleReq(), matching the gitlabreceiver pattern.

Correção

Incorrect Authorization

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Identificadores relacionados

CVE-2026-55701
GHSA-W5CV-PW74-4RXC

Produtos afetados

Github.Com/Open-Telemetry/Opentelemetry-Collector-Contrib/Receiver/Githubreceiver